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If you prefer Firefox to chrome, then the best alternative is librefox. Librefox is Firefox without all of the tracking: https://github.com/intika/Librefox/


Librefox is unmaintained: https://github.com/intika/Librefox/issues/141 . https://librewolf.net/ is a fork of that.


Minor detail: Note that librefox/librewolf are not forks, but a patchset (similar to ungoogled chromium). So the base of the source code is still upstream firefox. [1]

[1] https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/source/-/tree...


I think IceCat is a better alternative: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/.


It is abandonware. The page you linked has a 'latest release' button leading here: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ just look at dates.


Thanks! Haven’t heard of it. I prefer a hardened Firefox above Chrome.


Why is this being downvoted?


Because librefox is unmaintained. Use librewolf instead.


Thanks!




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